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State of play - Day 31. Updated one page snapshot of the war. No real ceasefire movement thus far. The U.S. has knocked off the Iranian navy and clipped their missile capacity. However HEU remains unsecured and the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed. Hold tap to load 4K ⬇️

@ThomasBordeaux7 @GeoConfirmed @JakeGodin Amazing work. 👏

A video showing people, said to be police officers, shooting at passing US helicopters, was filmed just northwest of Choram, Iran cc: @GeoConfirmed 30.78771, 50.70144 h/t @JakeGodin

@RealSpitfire Not even remotely the truth. It's horror that their lives are at risk at all and we're there to begin with.

Watching Americans root for Iran and against the American pilots who are missing is so grotesque. This is how bad TDS has gotten.

Update 1. The last 36 hours (CENTCOM AOR): F-15E lost, pilot rescued 2x HH-60W damaged A-10 down, pilot ejected (allied) Wing Loong 2 down, Shiraz Likely MQ-9 down, Shiraz Possible MQ-9 lost on CSAR mission. F-16 Squawk 7700, Iraq (safely back) 2x KC-135 Squawk 7700, Israel

CSAR showed some huge balls today. This thing is alot dicer than it may even appear, lots of aircraft are taking fire. One reaper shot down.

@sentdefender Not an A-10. Not denying the A-10 was hit, but this isn't the footage. Wrong airframe.

Video footage published by Iranian state-run media which claims to show the targeting of a U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt ll earlier today over Southern Iran by a surface-to-air missile, with the A-10 later crashing in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Kuwait, while the pilot successfully ejected and was later rescued by U.S. Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR).

@hissgoescobra @AdamKinzinger @x102reddragon I feel like it's altitude. The CSAR has no choice but to get down and dirty. Not sure if the A-10 was related. But this all feels like a pile on from the downed F15 and getting within small arms or MANPADS range. We all saw the F-18 juke.

@AdamKinzinger @x102reddragon Or at least tactics. Which can count for a lot as they did in Karbala in 2003 with the Apache helicopters. It’s literally insane that we have a president. Who’s just letting the Russians tee off on our people through Iran.

With the news that a second plane, an A10 was shot down (pilot safe) makes me wonder if those recent shipments from Russia to Iran had some new weapons

NEW: The Pentagon has finally added Operation Epic Fury to its online database of U.S. military casualties As of April 3, a total of 365 have been wounded in action: • Army = 247 • Navy = 63 • Marine = 19 • Air Force = 36 Death toll remains at 13 dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/confl…

@TheIntelFrog He's simultaneously bored of this conflict already, and sour it can't be all about him. We remember what he said about John McCain, if anyone in uniform has any doubt about what the commander in chief thinks about them.

🤯🤯🤯 2 aircraft lost in combat with at least 1 crew member unaccounted for at this time...

@ABC Chicago is colloquially known as the "City of Big Shoulders." 😁

Pope Leo XIV will personally carry the wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking the first time in decades that a pope carries the cross to every station. abcnews.link/4f2e4yp

I don't think the ability is in doubt. It's the risk. 1. How spread out is the material over how many facilities? Intelligence is imperfect. 2. Zero surprise. This isn't a QRF rushing to the scene of a downed aviator. The Iranians know exactly where material is and the likely landing areas are. 3. Time. Days or weeks holding a perimter(s). In peacetime this op took weeks with the participation of said nation.

@Kingofnowher_e C-130 and C-17 are literally made to land in mostly unprepared landing areas, all they have to do is fly the guys in and they'll clear the area for them to land. Just because a french general can't comprehend our ability to do that doesn't mean we can't do it.

🇫🇷🇺🇸🇮🇷 A French general at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”

Hmmm

@sissenberg @nytimes Yikes

Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?

@atrupar Let's hope this isn't relevant.

“He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” -- President Donald J Trump, July 18, 2015

As a former combat helicopter pilot who flew for two years in hostile territory in combat zones, I will tell you that it was very comforting, knowing that if you got shot down… That we had unwavering faith that the US military would stop everything and the new mission in the entire AOR would be your rescue. Incredibly grateful for CSARs bravery. They are going to get the second pilot. x.com/DD_Geopolitics…

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

🤞for the 2nd crew member.

If the US F-15 crew is harmed or captured it will increase the political will and justification for escalation of the war in America.

no matter what’s going on in the world. this is very, very, very freaking awesome

@MaMoMVPY It felt like it was a placeholder to buy time. He's not interested anymore. Hegseth and military have remained consistent, Rubio has teetered, but the POTUS has drifted noticeably towards cutting and running. I just feel he's not interested anymore.

Trump has addressed the American people - and the world. The build-up promised something momentous. BUT what did he actually say? NOTHING. The expected attacks on NATO did not materialise, nor was there ANYTHING concrete about the plan regarding the war with Iran. Before the speech he had hinted that the US was on its way out. But there was nothing concrete on that front either. Trump apparently cannot find a way out of this war. But just look at the financial markets this morning: oil prices up - and equities sharply down. The most shocking aspect of this speech is that it was PREPARED, and yet despite that, Trump was utterly incapable of delivering any coherent message whatsoever. It genuinely appears as though the speech was written by a 19-year-old with no knowledge of the subject - it is plainly evident that there was neither a professional speechwriter nor any professional input on the substance. It strikes me that there are quite simply NO professional people around him. The speech was atrociously written - and delivered even worse. It is deeply peculiar. As an investor, one is left with the overwhelming impression that there is quite simply NO plan - that there are no professionals of any kind left in the American federal administration. My single greatest concern is that the situation is so chaotic that Trump will go on to make even worse decisions with far, far more deadly consequences in the time ahead. There appears to be no one who is seriously keeping a grip on reason. It is also abundantly clear that Trump can no longer back out. He is trapped in this war. And it is becoming increasingly likely that further escalation lies ahead - and it is perfectly obvious that the US now has virtually no allies left in the world - save for Israel and Russia. And finally - the fact that the US continues to push its allies further and further away through this utterly irrational behaviour must also carry economic and financial consequences, in that the US will find it increasingly difficult to attract capital. The world will be left in no doubt that one cannot rely on purchasing American weapons systems. One cannot purchase American IT systems. And it will become harder and harder to maintain the dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Note in this connection that should the economies of the Gulf states become significantly further weakened, they will sooner or later be compelled to abandon their peg to the dollar. While rising oil prices are in principle supportive of the dollar, the underlying reality is that Trump's actions are systematically undermining the dollar's role in the global financial system.